The latest cast addition, according to Variety, is Elizabeth Banks (The Next Three Days, The Uninvited) as Effie Trinket, the hair-color changing, District 12 escort who, in Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel, brings the forced contestants to the televised death-match known as the Hunger Games. Banks is reportedly "in talks" for the role, and Lionsgate has yet to confirm the actress in the role.

Production on The Hunger Games is set to start in a couple months, which gives Ross plenty of time to cast the remaining roles, particularly Prim, the younger sister of Katniss, and main antagonist, President Coriolanus Snow (You can cast the roles yourself at the Hunger Games Cast-O-Rama). The Hunger Games is scheduled to open on March 23, 2012.